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September 21, 2011

Whiskers

Well, she did want to be Hello, Kitty for Halloween.

Ivy is doing great. She got six stitches in her lip after some bedtime ballyhoo. You see, she has this routine of slipping out from under the covers after I tuck her in to give one more round of goodnight kisses. This night she just didn't make it back to her bed so safely.

We have an appointment to have the stitches checked and removed on Friday with a new-to-us doctor. Ours was over an hour away and moved offices even farther west. This new one came recommended by a friend and my phone call to them went something like this: Hi, are you taking new patients with a natural approach to health care? Also, we don't vaccinate. All good. So, can you take out my daughter's stitches this Friday?

We are hoping the wound heals up nice and clean on its own and over the next six months we can see what kind of scar (if any) is left. After that we can consider plastic surgery if needed.

Everyone in the E.R. made up over Ivy's blue eyes and how good she was. She was so still and also talked their ears off. Once we got home, however, she was back to her wild ways and has me seriously considering bubble wrap for the next small style. Do they make it for a mama's heart?

OH, I can just imagine how this hurts your mama-heart. I'm pretty tough with the blood/guts/stitches stuff, unless it's one of my own babies. Then I get all faint and weepy. She's going to heal quickly, though, and ohmygoodness her eyes are beautiful!

Poor baby girl! I got bit in the lip by a dog when I was a kid. I had a lot of stitches in my lip and a decent scar but it got better over time. I never had any plastic surgery but now it is barely noticeable. I hope she heals up quickly!

Tulip had 7 stitches in her chin in January - we called it her beard. She pulled out two of the stitches the next day. I told her that was a mistake and she said, "I know, next time I won't ever do it again."

oh that ivy. wasn't right around her second birthday when she hurt her arm? i'm dreading the e.r./doctor visit for the first time for something like this. but it is bound to happen. (although, i have never broken a bone or had stitches, clearly, i need to live a little more;))

I did the same sort of thing around her age to my lip (trick or treating Halloween night actually, I slipped and split my lip on a front porch). I had stitches like that too, but on one side of my lip. It did scar a bit but no one who doesn't know the story would even know it's there. I hope Ivy's heals up well!